K&L Gates, the global law firm with headquarters in Pittsburgh, cut around 10% of its non-lawyer staff, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The layoffs affected the firm\u2019s \u201callied professionals,\u201d which the K&L Gates\u2019 website says ranges from \u201centry-level support roles to seasoned professionals and management-level employees.\u201d<\/p>\n
K&L Gates spokesman Steven Eliopoulos confirmed that no company lawyers \u2014 around 140 of whom work in Pittsburgh \u2014 were impacted by the layoffs.<\/p>\n
Eliopoulos did not say whether any Pittsburgh staffers were affected.<\/p>\n
The company employs more than 3,000 people across its more than 40 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, according to labor analytics group Revelio Labs.<\/p>\n
The headquarters building is Downtown Pittsburgh\u2019s 10th tallest skyscraper, the K&L Gates Center at the corner of Sixth and Liberty avenues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis action is being taken to streamline our support structure, ensuring that we are attuned to immediate client needs and well positioned to anticipate and meet future demand,\u201d the company\u2019s Global Managing Partner Stacy Ackermann said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K&L Gates, the global law firm with headquarters in Pittsburgh, cut around 10% of its non-lawyer staff, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-248704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}